St. Petersburg

Mother's Day: Florida's Six Worst Moms

In case you've forgotten, Sunday is Mother's Day. And while you might be scrambling to buy your mom $2 flowers from a gas station or getting her yet another Hallmark card with kittens on it from the CVS down the street (again!), maybe you want to remember that you have only one mother. And maybe y ... More >>

Florida Woman Calls 911 To Get Her Money Back From Drug Dealer

A St. Petersburg woman went and bought herself some weed and cocaine from a local drug dealer. The stash was about $50 bucks worth. But she soon realized that fifty dollars for drugs was way over her budget, and that this impulse purchase was now going to leave her broke.So she did the logical thin ... More >>

Hide the Bong: State Legislator Seeks Ban on Drug Paraphernalia

Florida Senate Bill Wants to Ban Bongs and Glass Pieces

Better be careful with those glass pieces, because if one state rep has his way, you won't be able to pick up a replacement anywhere in Florida. A new bill floating through the Legislature seeks to ban pipes and bongs from retail outlets. The legislation was filed last December. Right now, it's floa ... More >>

Derek Trucks on the "Oddly Healthy" Nature of Touring With His Wife

Russia House Restaurant in Boca Raton: Authentic Food and 86 Kinds of Vodka

The decor is contemporary and overpoweringly red: red leather booths, cherry wood walls, red curtains, and giant flat screen TVs playing Russian pop music videos. The menu, though, is full of classics. So the three-month old Russia House restaurant has it all: the feel of modern-day St. Petersburg ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hits Up Florida, Gets Face Wiped by Some Creepy Guy

Fresh off a debate victory that ended the race and buried Obama forever, Mittington RoboRomney hit up Florida for a three-city gloat-a-thon in which he gave a couple of stump speeches, shared some stories, took some photos, and uncomfortably got his face wiped over and over again by some random dude ... More >>

Foreign Buyers Totally Into South Florida Real Estate

Popular real-estate website Trulia.com has been tracking you, international real estate buyers. And now it's telling everybody.While a study released earlier this week found that searches for U.S. homes from other countries has dropped 10 percent on the website since 2011, there was other informatio ... More >>

Scientists Insist That Polish Guy Didn't Actually Find the G Spot

On Wednesday, reporter New Times Chris Sweeney brought you an interview with St. Petersburg medical researcher Adam Ostrzenski, who says he may have discovered the fabled G spot in a dead 83-year-old.The peer-reviewed paper Ostrzenski wrote about it got a lot of attention in the interblags ... More >>

Florida Doctor Discovers Precise Location of G Spot in 83-Year-Old Cadaver

Man's struggle to find the G spot has been the subject of many a punch line, but a new study shows that it's quite small and not exactly easy to get to. This week, Adam Ostrzenski, a St. Petersburg doctor, published a paper that confirms the "anatomic existence of the G-spot" for the first time ... More >>

South Florida at the Bottom of New Job Creation Rankings

​More than one in five South Florida residents said their employers were firing workers in 2011, according a Gallup poll released this morning.In a Gallup ranking of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, the "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach" area ranked 44th out of 50 for job creati ... More >>

Rick Scott Signs Death Warrant Number Three -- Robert Waterhouse Is Next

​Gov. Rick Scott signed the third death warrant of his governorship yesterday, this time calling for 65-year-old Robert Waterhouse to get the juice.All three death warrants signed by the governor have been for inmates over age 60.Waterhouse, who was arrested for the murder of a St. Petersburg woma ... More >>

Fox News and Bill O'Reilly Accused of Airing "Distorted" Re-Creation of Florida Man's Email

Email comes in, new email allegedly goes out. You can't explain that.​Fox News has been accused of distorting its news content in the past. Often.Now, a St. Petersburg man says he sent an email to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, and it ended up being displayed on his show, the O'Reilly Factor. Well, ... More >>

Merick Lewin, Nephew of 411-PAIN Owner, Seeks State House Seat in Davie

​As state legislators consider tougher regulations for companies that refer car accident victims to chiropractors and lawyers, one powerful Broward referral service has a family member gunning for a seat in Tallahassee.State House candidate Merick Lewin is a little-known Republican seeking to ... More >>

Deal of the Day: $6 for $15 Worth of Any Combination Ice Cream at D'Lites

​The next time you get a late-night craving for something sweet, Charlie has the perfect suggestion: ice cream.But not just any ice cream. Please, don't go trolling in your freezer for that near-forgotten carton of grocery store brand vanilla. Not when you have D'Lites of Hollywood open ... More >>

Gay Marriage: Ken Keechl Says He'll Tie the Knot in New York; Rick Scott -- Not So Much

ithacalibrary.com"That can't come here." -- Rick Scott​New York's passage of gay marriage equality Friday night has had quite different reactions nationwide -- including a couple down here in the Sunshine State.Former Broward Mayor Ken Keechl announced on Facebook that he's getting married to his ... More >>

Rick Scott Gives High-Paid State Job to a Disgraced Bureaucrat

via miamiherald.com​In early February, Gov. Rick Scott picked Carl Littlefield to run the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Littlefield quit 17 days later. He stepped down on Monday Feb. 22, the day before a Senate panel was supposed to question him about sexual abuse allegations at a group ho ... More >>

Billy's Back

The Smashing Pumpkins' small-venues tour stops in at Revolution on Tuesday.

Senate Strikes Amendment That Could Have Ended Greyhound Racing

C. Stiles​Greyhound protection groups from all over the country strongly advocated for an amendment that could have ended live greyhound racing in Florida, but the amendment was ruled "non-germane" and did not see a vote.In Florida, home to more than half the dog tracks in the country, current law ... More >>

Florida Smoke Shop Owners Organize Against Anti-Pipe Legislation

flickr.com​State Representative Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, wants to ban glass water pipes (bongs) in Florida. He has proposed and backed several bills that would effectively shut down stores that sell these products. His first bill, which never made it to a vote, would have put ... More >>

Are There More Pain Clinics in Broward Than McDonald's?

C. Stiles​Everyone has heard some of the startling statistics about the scourge of pain clinics in South Florida: that a new clinic opens here every three days, that doctors in Broward alone dispense nearly 10 million Oxycodone pills a year, that more than half of the illegal prescription pills in ... More >>

Introducing Alex Nelson

The emotive local solo guy made a splash at Dada with Viva Le Vox.

Red Eye Rocked

The annual ArtServe show: a music and fashion mashup.

How Does One Recognize the Four Year Anniversary of the Death of a Politically Exploited Brain Dead Woman?

The answer, apparently, is to exploit Terri Schiavo one more time, as Ave Maria is doing today. The Catholic city, which lies in the swamps east of Naples and was bankrolled by a pizza delivery baron, is staging a mass in Schiavo's honor. Because Schiavo was -- before she slipped into a persistent v ... More >>

Random Sort-of-Florida-Band Album Review: WAUMISS, WAUMISS

WAUMISSWAUMISS (Little Ramona Records)The Carrboro, North Carolina-based duo WAUMISS traces its roots back to Florida, to a series of early-Nineties Tampa and St. Petersburg bedrooms that produced many beautifully skewed pop songs. The musicians who comprise WAUMISS became two of many who wandered ... More >>

Wedding Crashers II: When Gays Attack

For all this talk of who's invited to Gov. Charlie Crist's wedding, has anyone remembered the fire hoses and German shepherds? They tend to occupy the front lines of Republican efforts to quash civil rights, and perhaps they'll make the guest list now that regional gays have announced they're cras ... More >>

Newspaper layoffs, partnerships, and the Net conspire to kill South Florida dailies

Silly Rabbits

Dance-music gurus for over a decade, does Rabbit in the Moon still have anything left in the tank?

Sign Of The Times: John Rodstrom Laid Off

They Can't Be Beat

Customers claim AutoNation lured them into bad loans

Interview: Motion City Soundtrack

Size Matters

Dine like a master of the universe at Six Tables

How to Cook a Shrimp

And why all brownies are not created equal

Comfy With the Hoity-Toity

Anna Karenina aims high, sputters, then lifts off into rare air

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

The Dreamcatcher

The weird world of Dali comes to CSMART

Worldwidest

All the world's a turntable for Gilles Peterson

Letters for August 4-10, 2005

Letters for January 13-19, 2005

Suffering Together

In Lake Worth's Growing Together, kids don't kick drugs. They're beaten and humiliated.

The Egg Men

Volunteers spend millions of hours trying to rescue sea turtles. So how come so few people care about busting poachers?

Reel Women

Ladies, Let's Go Fishing! teaches female fisherfolk the basics

Letters to the Editor

Letters for April 5, 2001

The Traveling Schacknow Show

Art lesson: Owning a museum requires paying attention to details

Undercurrents

To Hyde Park Market They Merrily Go

Bandwidth

Keith Brown Trio undergoes major lineup changes

Sand Blast

Letters

Cleared for Takeoff

If Fort Lauderdale wants to keep the Baltimore Orioles in town for spring training, it just needs to come up with $36 million